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Not really related, but this is the first time I've seen 4chan stats posted properly (although they do measure with quantcast) so I feel like saying this.

These are our stats for minecraftforum.net (last 30 days):

> Visits: 33,793,899 > Unique Visitors: 11,094,806

A forum for an indie game is half the size of 4chan; the biggest western forum. Pretty neat. We're also bigger than 4chan in the UK. I'm not sure if this makes 4chan small or Minecraft huge :p

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If you look at ClouldFlare's report, Google Analytics misses at least 30% of the pageviews, so there's a good chunk of unaccounted visitors. You are more like a third/quarter the size.

A lot of anons are actively blocking online tracking technologies, much more than the usual 1% that run NoScript.

And heck, some access 4chan over Tor, which means any statistics about latency and location are quite probably wrong.

(You might think Tor is slow for image-heavy sites, in my experience it isn't. Tor is high-latency, but throughput is reasonable)

Most of the Tor relays are banned on 4chan, though.

Ah, that's true.

Minecraft videos are regularly in the top 10 most viewed on YouTube. I think it's that Minecraft is huge plus the players are very engaged on the internet with it.

Say what you want about the quality of the game (I personally detest many of its more recent changes and its loss of clear direction), Minecraft has a huge and very, very active community. Notch might not have cracked designing a game, but he's certainly cracked making a game community.

A game that is fun and popular is by definition well designed I would say.

I suppose. I used to find it fun, but some of the changes made more recently have drained much of the fun from it, for me.

Could you tell what changes exactly are you talking about?

Hunger, biomes (although that's an old change now), Endermen, end game.

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